Despite the best efforts of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and like-minded groups to make sure this business remains unfinished, reducing gun violence remains stubbornly high on the nations agenda.

This is partly due to the ravings of Wayne LaPierre, the NRAs executive vice president and spokesman, who almost single-handedly, or single-mouthedly, is making the pro-gun argument sound even crazier and more irresponsible than it is. And thats saying something.

This weekend, LaPierre treated viewers of Fox News Sunday to some of his lunacy. Anchor Chris Wallace gave him the opportunity to disavow the NRAs shameful ad accusing President Obama of hypocrisy for supporting gun control while his own family is protected by armed Secret Service agents. LaPierre stuck to his guns, such as they were....

In Senate hearings last week, LaPierre portrayed life in the United States as one long horror movie. What people all over the country fear today is being abandoned by their government, he said. If a tornado hits, if a hurricane hits, if a riot occurs, that theyre going to be out there alone, and the only way theyre going to protect themselves, in the cold, in the dark, when theyre vulnerable, is with a firearm.

He left out the zombies.

With so many members of Congress already bought and paid for, its understandable that the NRA would feel a measure of confidence. But I believe the pro-gun lobby is seriously overplaying its hand, and that the wind has shifted....

The NRA has only been shooting itself in the foot if you are listening to the MSM and drinking their Koolaid. The NRA is finally listening to their membership. We have drawn a line in the sand, and are not going to take it anymore.

The NRA has really been shooting itself in the foot (no pun intended) lately, and could do more harm than good on this issue.

Go back the the White Hut, shill.

"Gun violence" has been declining for years as the rate of gun ownership has increased.

INCONVENIENT FACT: According to the peer-reviewed Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, countries with strict gun control laws have higher murder and suicide rates than those without.

DOCUMENTATION: Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide? A Review of International and Some Domestic Evidence by Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser, Volume 30, Number 2 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, pages 649-694. (To download a PDF copy of the journal article, simply Google the title. It is available on the web free of charge.)

QUOTE FROM ARTICLE: If you are surprised by our findings, so are we. We did not begin this research with any intent to exonerate handguns, but there it is  a negative finding, to be sure, but a negative finding is nevertheless a positive contribution. It directs us where not to aim public health resources.

INDIRECTION: The trick hoplophobes always use is to say that America has higher gun-murder rates than other countries, but many of those murders are criminals killed in the act of committing violent crimes or criminal gang members killing each other. Compare absolute murder rates, and the result is more guns, less murder. (Source: GunFacts.info)

SECOND INCONVENIENT FACT: According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)

THIRD INCONVENIENT FACT: Rifles are used in less than 1% of gun crimes. Assault weapons (AKA semiautomatic rifles) are used in a small fraction of that 1%. (Source: GunFacts.info)

QUESTION: If gun-free zones make people safe, then why dont we declare the immediate vicinity of the President and Vice-President to be gun-free zones and send the Secret Service home? Or are gun-free zones good enough for our kids, but not good enough for our overlords? It is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy for politicians to surround themselves with armed guards while dictating that our children be soft targets.

METAPHOR: America has more private gun ownership than most other countries, so naturally there are more gun murders. America also has more hospitals than most other countries, so naturally we have more people dying in hospitals. Does that mean we should outlaw hospitals?

FINAL INCONVENIENT FACT: Since 1900, governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens, and gun control was always the first step.

Of Holocausts and Gun Control, Washington University Law Quarterly, Volume 75, Number 3, Fall 1997 (pp. 1237-1275) (To download a PDF copy of the journal article, simply Google the title. It is available on the web free of charge.)

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posted on 02/05/2013 8:01:33 AM PST
by E. Pluribus Unum
(TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)

I don’t think this Washington Post article is painting the true picture of the current status of the gun control debate in the American public.

I believe that the NRA and the outspoken gun-rights advocates are being very effective with their arguments. Why else would the Senate (Harry Reid) back away from Feinstein’s proposal (but will probably resort to “trickery” to get things in it passed)?

The Dem’s are most definitely losing this arguments to the NRA, and the Washington Post is doing what all good Democrats do: When they are losing a debate on an issue, they “Alinsky” their opponents.

Sen Feinstein did bigger damage to the AWB movement. To the ones who did not look at her bill, they assumed the gov want to ban the AK-47 and AR-15, and everything else is OK. Problem is her bill if adhered to would ban all semi autos with detach mags including wooden stock rifles (hunting rifle); lever action rifles (cowboy type rifles) and most 22LR rifles (guns used to hunt small game like rabbit, squirel and smaller. IAW most guns currently owned by gun owners would be banned except one shot repeaters. Thus in the future if two or more home invaders break into your house, your family will have to form a late 19th Century fire by rank with one shot repeaters if forced to engage with home invaders with semi auto pistols with illegal 15+ shot mags, while your family will fire one shot and forced to reload. I think Custer learned the hard way at Little Big Horn (Indians with lever action repeaters vs one shot US Army carbines). That is why NRA ranks swelled by 500,000+ in one month including Dem blue collar that voted for Obama in 2012.

The NRA had the guts to suggest that Newtown hire armed security guards for their schools and was mocked and denigrated by the Libtard Press. Now Newtown has voted to hire armed security guards for their schools.

Even the Press is admitting that the NRA is winning the inflence war over gun control.

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posted on 02/05/2013 8:28:17 AM PST
by Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)

If a tornado hits, if a hurricane hits, if a riot occurs, that theyre going to be out there alone, and the only way theyre going to protect themselves, in the cold, in the dark, when theyre vulnerable, is with a firearm.

Just ask some residents of New Jersey. When you count on the Government to meet your needs, you're setting yourself up for huge disappointment.

Bullsh!t!!! People are joining the NRA in droves.....Liberals like Eugene Robinson and Chris Wallace are always going to prsent consrvatives in this light. Question remains are Obamas kid’s more valuable than ours?

Hehe, your propaganda dump won’t work here. The NRA’s tactics and bold positioning are actually improving its image. Lefties do not understand the idea of moral clarity. We have a right to live. It’s a God-given right and everybody intuitively gets that, even most libs. And if we have a right to live, we have a right to defend our life, whether as individuals, families, or states. Everybody gets that. And that’s why the NRA and others are in a position to win this big. Propaganda to the contrary is just embarrassing, for the author, and for the pawns who believe it. Sorry. Like I tell some telemarketers, get a different employer. You can do better.

The goal of this government (President) is to have all gun owners register their guns. Once this is accomplished, the governmet will know where every gun is and can confiscate them on short notice. Our freedom under the second amendment will mean nothing. So eveyone should reject any notion of
registering every wepon. K2afe

Eugene Robinson is a native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, the site of the infamous “Orangeburg Massacre” of 1968 where three rioters were killed & the city has been racially polarized ever since. He is of that generation.

Any disagreement with his views is always due to racism, the NRA is a white mens’ club, the KKK is alive & well, the Republican Party is home to all the bigots who left the Democratic Party after LBJ, the civil rights struggle of the 1960’s never really ended, you get the idea.

I live in the capital Columbia, & I would love to see a pro-gun control demonstration at the State House. Counterprotesters would outnumber gungrabbers ten to one. Many think the most gun friendly states are Idaho & Montana. They should visit the Palmetto State.

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posted on 02/05/2013 8:59:50 AM PST
by elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")

“The NRA had the guts to suggest that Newtown hire armed security guards for their schools and was mocked and denigrated by the Libtard Press.”

What the NRA suggested was a Federal power grab, placing federal security guards in schools. This should be handled at the local level. Nevertheless I’ve been generally impressed with how they’ve stepped up to the plate. Still I expect more from them, NY state just passed an unconstitutional gun grab, the NRA is well funded so I wait with interest for them to spend some of that money by filing a legal challenge against the State of NY.

Don't bet on that... Who was the Chicago anti-gun writer some years ago who shot a kid who went swimming in his pool using an illegal handgun? He said he didn't feel safe, and got it from a relative in law enforcement.

Given his connections, neither he, nor the relative who gave him the illegal handgun got more than the tiniest slap on the wrist.

BTW, he continued to write columns singing the praises of "gun control" after that!

Mark

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posted on 02/05/2013 9:08:49 AM PST
by MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

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